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Sydney Elm Meetup Notes

Getting Started

• The Elm Guide
• Elm Examples

Project Ideas And Examples

• Build a HackerNews client (Http)

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slides http://dt.pe/lY4rb0

source https://class.coursera.org/startup-001/lecture/index

• What Is a Startup?
  • A new found business build to grow rapidly (NOT like a barber shop)
    • search a new niche with a huge market and be the first one to take over the place here
• often new technology is involved!

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Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain

source http://vimeo.com/5895898

• everyone can make something up, finishing is the only important thing
• whats frightening is not the preparation, but the pushing out to public
• 37signals -> ship as soon as there's no time or budget anymore
• the closer you get to the deadline, the more you change and replace and trash (until you miss the deadline)
• so you must trash in the beginning, NOT later

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require.config({
  baseUrl: 'lib',
  paths: {
    'jquery': '../components/jquery/jquery',
    'underscore': '../components/underscore/underscore',
    'backbone': '../components/backbone/backbone',
  },
  shim: {
    'jquery': {
      exports: '$',

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/* the art of clean css code */
/* from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css-everything-is-global-and-how-to-deal-with-it.html */
/* and http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-html-semantics-front-end-architecture */

/*
  problem in css: all styles are global, so they can easily pollute the global namespace
  and make all your styles look bad, this is especially true for reusable components and
  frameworks. Here are some guidelines for clean css that won't interfere.
*/

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/*

A small script for use with Rhetoricus.

https://rhetoricus.jit.su/

It clicks five unfollow buttons, then waits 20 seconds before clicking another five.

To use, paste it into Firefox's scratchpad whilst using Rhetoricus.

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<h1>move your mouse over the words</h1>
<a href="#light">one</a>
<a href="#dark">two</a>

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<div id="appname">
    <h3 class="appname">rhetoricus <small>by @damienklinnert</small> <span class="label label-warning">stable</span></h3>
    <p class="muted desc descm">See who's not following you back on app.net.<br /><br /><br /></p>
    <br />
    <p class="desc">
        <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i> Screenshots
        <div class="screenshots">
	    <a class="fancybox" rel="appname" href="https://my.doctape.com/s/fB5HfG/image.jpg" title="home screen">
	        <img src="https://my.doctape.com/s/fB5HfG/image.jpg" alt="" width="100px" height="auto" />
	    </a>

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/**
 * dependencies
 */

var q = require('q');

/**
 * lib
 */

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function get_all_the_things(things) {
    var the_promises = [];

    for (var i = 0; i < things.length; i++) {
        (function(i) {  // keep i in scope
            var deferred = Q.defer();
            get_a_thing(things[i], function(result) {
                deferred.resolve(result);
            });
            the_promises.push(deferred.promise);